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GENERAL
NAME: Charlotte Alihotsy Meer
NICKNAMES: Charlie, Char, Charlie Horse, Meerkat, literally any pun you can think of. Mandragora is her nickname from childhood.
AGE/DOB: 17; May 24, 1997 / Gemini (held back a year)
BLOOD STATUS: Half-blood
GENDER/PRONOUNS:Female; she/her.
SEXUALITY: Bisexual?? Aggressive but fickle and tends to prefer boys or tomboys.
HOMETOWN: Grisgris, Louisiana & New Orleans, Louisiana (as of Summer 2013; step-father lives here)
Grisgris is a moderate sized wizarding town located in Lafourche Parish, west of Golden Meadow, and named for Bayou Grisgris. It's a humid, swampy area that wizards have made habitable through the use of magic and clever architecture.
CONCEPT: An awful girl with a godawful laugh to match.
PHYSICAL
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Uninspiring fashion examples: 1 2 3 4 5
HEIGHT: 5'10
PB: Sophie Turner
PERSONALITY
LIKES: Sailor Moon/Magical Girl type media, singing and
DISLIKES: That demonic forest shit that KIDNAPPED ACTUAL CHILDREN, anything that spells bad luck/bad omens, weak people, Squonks, being ignored, bustling cities, cold weather, the word "pop" to describe a soft drink
PERSONALITY:
Charlotte is an unpleasant being and she does little to hide the fact. Her tongue is barbed, her laughter is sharp and shrill, her lips take on an impish curl, and her words often hide a double meaning. There's a smug confidence about her that oozes from her pores and shows in the glint in her eye; she's a girl who believes herself capable of accomplishing anything she sets her mind to. That inflated sense of self-confidence is a defense mechanism developed from growing up with the belief that the odds are stacked against her, whether that's the reality of her situation or not.
COMPETITIVE; Like many in her house, Charlotte is competitive. Though she's usually gunning for the glory of first place-- if you're going to try, try your best, right?-- she cares less about winning every single trial and more about proving that she's intelligent, capable, and skillful. Mundane tasks turn into competitions so that she can get her daily dose of smug self-satisfaction; it could be finishing and turning in her test first, or getting up the staircase faster than the person beside her who has no idea that they're even part of an imaginary race.
MANIPULATIVE; She is a shrewd and conniving little shit. Manipulation is a weapon she has practiced and honed all her life, but good people have been hurt because oftentimes she doesn't know when to sheathe it. This dangerous defense mechanism combined with trust issues and glaring personality flaws have, understandably, made lasting, genuine friendships few and far between.
Despite what she would have others believe, she is honestly very lonely and desperately seeks the acceptance and approval of those around her. This, ironically, makes her a target for manipulation if played just right and she'll fall for a pretty face and prettier promises.
LOVE ADDICT; Charlotte loves to love and be loved. She is addicted to the excitement of new romance and the tension of the "will-we-won't-we". She has been known to string along several boys at a time, weeding them out, aggressively pursuing The One, and then ditching them once the novelty has worn off. Flavor of the Month is a generous term when she seems to change tastes by the week.
SUPERSTITIOUS; Even though she knows most of it is bullshit, Charlotte is fairly superstitious. She's not cautious of stepping on cracks, and watching someone open an umbrella indoors makes her uncomfortable but it isn't the end of the world. Most of it takes forms in small, subtle gestures: she won't eat both ends of a bread loaf, she won't pick up a dragot if it's face down, she'll never walk beneath a ladder, and she'll quickly knock on wood to avoid tempting the fates. However, when she heard about Wes being taken from his tent on that overnight trip, she pretty blatantly hung a mirror at the door to her cabin to ward off evil spirits.
UNCOUTH; For all her worry over appearing intelligent and capable, she sure doesn't seem to hide the fact that she's a redneck. She doesn't really care if there's dirt on her clothes, she rarely wears shoes when she doesn't have to, and when something's stuck between her teeth, she will openly pick at it and flick it away.
SELFISH; Charlotte is always looking out for Number One. (Hint: it's her.) She's not the type to make sacrifices for another person unless she expects something out of it in return, and she will take advantage of a more selfless person's kindness without batting an eye unless she suspects there's some sort of catch to it. At parties, she's the worst and will drink the last beer or eat the last slice of pizza without saying anything. She doesn't give a fuck.
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ESTP
+; intelligent, ambitious, creative, fun, brave, bold, selectively loyal, playful, confident, blunt, quick
-; manipulative, selfish, fickle, antagonistic, sadistic, dishonest, overly competitive, vicious, jealous, superstitious, tasteless
SKILLS
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English & French (specifically grew up speaking Cajun French in their household, but learned European French in school)
PATRONUS: Can cast an uncorporeal Patronus from DADA and her continued practice over the summer after the Anonymous Fiasco, but she's yet to produce a fully formed one and she doesn't know which animal it will be yet. (Spoiler: it's an alligator.)
SKILLS:
Fishing; Charlie loves fishing and being on the water and she signed up for boating club as an excuse to be able to fish more often. She's proficient in both lake and sea fishing and enjoys the thrill of bowfishing when she's able. There's something more satisfying about skewering a fish with an arrow than reeling it in on a hook.
Archery; She likes hunting game at home and she prefers a bow to a wand or a gun. It's similar to fishing in that it's therapeutic and reminds her of home.
Dancing & Gymnastics; Charlotte was on the cheerleading team her Freshman year, but has been a dancer and a gymnast long before that. It started in childhood as a constructive way to expend her pent up energy and she's kept up with it all this time. Charlie is trained in many types of dances, but she favors contemporary dance and her specialty is jazz dance. She practices in the dance studio and attends local competitions over school breaks.
Music; Despite her shrillness in speaking, she has a lovely singing voice and can carry a tune but she lacks the discipline of more trained singers. She's a highly skilled banjo player but swapped to learning to play the guitar when she was fourteen. It's been three years, but she's not nearly as good on the guitar as she is on the banjo. Either way, her fingers are pretty callused as a result of her practice.
Athletic; ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
HISTORY
FAMILY MEMBERS:
Dr. Lily Meer; Mother; Half-blood; 47; Herbologist. Professor of Herbology at Prytania College of Magic in New Orleans.
Felix Fawley; Step-Father; Pureblood; 61; DRCMC - Spirit Division. Senior Field Agent.
He's old and he's British and he's Pureblooded and he's nice and he's Lily's new husband as of the summer of 2013. Charlotte absolutely hates him for no good reason; he's a very sweet and gentle man who treats her mother well and wants to spoil Charlotte as if she were his own daughter. Charlie senses this as weakness and takes advantage of his eagerness to please and desperation to be accepted by seeing how much she can get out of him.
Currently, she has a new familiar, new athletics gear, a new broom (after decided to play Quidditch on a whim), new clothes, new shoes, new dresses for every dance...
Felix's presence adds a lot of quality-of-life to their household and they could afford many things they couldn't before, but Charlotte is the Actual Devil.
Nicknames for him include: Felix the Cat, Fix-It Felix, Felix Felicis, Felix Leiter, Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, Grandpa, Ghost Buster, Spirited Away, Ghost Daddy, Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Currently, she has a new familiar, new athletics gear, a new broom (after decided to play Quidditch on a whim), new clothes, new shoes, new dresses for every dance...
Felix's presence adds a lot of quality-of-life to their household and they could afford many things they couldn't before, but Charlotte is the Actual Devil.
Nicknames for him include: Felix the Cat, Fix-It Felix, Felix Felicis, Felix Leiter, Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, Grandpa, Ghost Buster, Spirited Away, Ghost Daddy, Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Isadora Meer; Maternal Grandmother - Adoptive; Muggleborn; 87; Herbologist. Taught Herbology at Ilvermorny for twenty years from 1946-1966. She adopted Lily from a former student who was pregnant but did not have the means to care for a child. Isadora quit her teaching job so that she could move back to her hometown and work a normal 9-5 job as a researcher.
Alma Arceneaux; Maternal Grandmother - Adoptive; Half-blood; 89; Herbologist. Domestic partner of Isadora since 1973. They were research partners turned life partners and they're cute as fuck.
HISTORY:
Charlotte was a planned pregnancy, although it wasn't a very good plan. Lily was thirty, had finally earned her doctorate's degree, and had just accepted a full time position as an assistant professor teaching a class on magical plant genetics. Normally, these accomplishments would give a person a sense of fulfillment. And they did! For a little while, anyway. And then one of her friends had to go and have a baby and gush over how complete she felt now that she was a mother.
Succumbing to Baby Envy, Lily thought, "Fuck you, I can make one of those too," and sought out the man with the most ideal genetics within her social circle to serve as a donor. And then when he declined, she went to the next man. ... And then the next. Eventually, she got what she wanted and basked in the glow of impending motherhood and the sense of completion it was supposed to give her.
Charlotte was an absolute terror. It was like she had given birth to a Mandrake, not a human child. Lily quickly realized she was in over her head and with no one to relieve her, she moved back to Grisgris to seek her mothers' aid. Somehow, they managed to soothe this hellion better than she could. It may or may not have been related to their experience in soothing actual mandrakes.
The hellish baby grew into a mischievous child, with a bold and vivacious personality to make up for the trouble she caused. Lily ran a loose household and the women found Charlie's wild antics endearing rather than troublesome. Reinforcing negative behavior with a positive response was a mistake. Charlie began putting on a performance in anticipation of their humored reactions, but when she got to kindergarten she found that her teacher wasn't nearly as amused.
She bossed other kids around to the point of bullying, she didn't share well with others, and she was a constant disruption to the classroom. Though she was a smart and clever little girl, the teacher recognized her for what she was: an emotionally immature brat. It was suggested that she should be held back to repeat kindergarten again since she clearly wasn't ready to move on to first grade. It was mortifying and enough of an embarrassment that Charlotte learned her lesson the first time around: don't get caught.
Failing and subsequently repeating kindergarten while her peers she bullied moved on gave her a complex. Mostly, she felt like an idiot. She knew all her letters, colors, and numbers, she knew how to read and she was stuck with these babies who still had trouble mastering their potty training. At first, she was upset with her situation but then she realized she could twist it to her advantage. Being the oldest meant she was the smartest now, right? And that meant she could show off in front of her classmates to prove that not only was she smarter, but she was also better than them.
Charlotte made a point to read every book in her classroom that year, to raise her hand the fastest and answer the questions first, to shout the loudest and most confidently when reciting the alphabet. She was desperate to prove her worth, desperate to prove that she was intelligent, desperate to prove that she was the best student among these kids. As long as her classmates were impressed and thought of her as brilliant, then it had to be true.
This attitude carried on for years. Failing kindergarten may have been the best thing that happened to her, even if it made her insufferable at times.
When she went to Ilvermorny, she was delighted to be sorted into Wampus because that meant all the smarter kids were already sorted into Horned Serpent and would blend together into monotony. A smart Horned Serpent wasn't impressive, they were just… a Horned Serpent! But a Wampus!! A smart Wampus had to be very impressive, she reasoned.
Viewing herself as some sort of underdog, which she definitely wasn't, Charlotte busted her ass in some valiant attempt to prove her intelligence to people who didn't really doubt her in the first place. She signed up for every club to show how versatile she was, she took more classes than was reasonable, and then she dropped each one she wasn't successful in before she could be deemed a failure. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
She already knew she wanted to attend a private high school and had done some research in the summer before 8th grade. Charlotte sent in her applications and transcripts to several different private schools, and Gooseberry was the first to mail back and offer her an academic scholarship. She took it as a sign that Camping School was her destiny.
The sorting process was lengthier than it should have been as she reveled over the emblems arguing for her-- it was a nice change from the picky sorting process at Ilvermorny-- but Coppertale was an easy choice. Immediately, she joined too many clubs and immediately, she signed up for too many classes and ended up dropping out of quite a few of them early on. She joined the cheer squad and easily found her place in her social group and she was having the time of her life!!!
Meanwhile, so was Lily. She'd been secretive about seeing someone over the summer and with Charlotte out of the house and back in school, things quickly became more serious with the man she was dating. Over Christmas break, she brought Felix home to meet Charlotte and her dislike of her mother's suitor was immediate. No matter how kind he was or what lavish gifts he brought for her, Charlotte was quick to find fault in everything he did. Felix was undeterred; he recognized she had emotional problems and was acting out because of it. And he wanted to help. She blew him off, callously claiming he wouldn't last and punctuating it with a sharp little laugh.
Lily and Felix were wed in the summer before her Sophomore year. They moved into his sizable home in the wizarding district of New Orleans and for the first time in her life, there was a backyard. With a greenhouse. Still, Charlotte wasn't satisfied. She felt slighted, like her mother was stolen from her, and a pretty house with a pretty yard couldn't solve that.
So Felix offered to buy her a pet for company, any familiar she wanted! She chose a Jarvey mix. Seeing how far she could take this, she tested the waters by mentioning that she was thinking about trying out for Quidditch that year. He bought her a new set of equipment. Oh, but her jogging shoes were starting to chafe. And-- her clothes didn't really seem to fit as well anymore… Y'know, the Halloween dance was just around the corner, really…
As long as he was willing to give, Charlotte was ready to take it from him. She entered Sophomore year with something new to be smug about. She was basically Robin Hood… Stealing from the rich, giving to the poor, or whatever. Nevermind that this man genuinely cared about her well-being and only wanted to provide comforts she was never able to afford before. Nope! After all these years as the underdog, she deserved this.
Charlotte saw very little personal growth as a sophomore and the fact that she "avoided" being woodsnapped has only made her cockier and more intolerable. Though it was simply chance that Anon didn't take her, she believes her superstitious rituals had something to do with guaranteeing her safety and so she feels smugly empowered coming in to her junior year.
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ADDITIONAL FACTS;
Charlotte was a rowdy kid with too much energy and after school programs were a blessing when the Matriarchs were unable to look after her and Charlie was too small to sit in on Lily's classes with her all day. Starting at the age of five, it seemed like she changed programs every week: karate, then boxing, then softball, then lacrosse, then swimming, then, finally, gymnastics stuck for a few years. She transitioned into the dance program when she was nine, and then specialized in jazz dance. Grisgris is a Wizard town, but it has some No-Maj comforts. Charlotte grew up with access to television via satellite and she fell in love with the Girl Power image that Sailor Moon represented. If she was on her best behavior that week, Lily would reward her by taking her to the No-Maj movie store to rent out VHSs of the Sailor Moon series and any other Magical Girl series she saw and liked from the cover. She learned both fishing and banjo from a longtime friend of Lily's named Camille, who lived in the neighboring No-Maj town of Cut Off. Camille would sometimes have Charlotte over to her house to keep an eye on her and the two would spend the day lounging around the house, on the porch, or out on the boat. Charlie treasures these times, but she abandoned the banjo in favor of trying to learn the guitar when she was fourteen because banjos seemed super lame at the time. She's way better at playing banjo than guitar, but she still tries to keep up appearances that she's a guitarist first and foremost.
People who went to Ilvermorny with her might remember her banjo from previous years, and how she seemingly abandoned it the year before coming to Gooseberry.Fishing is incredibly calming and therapeutic and during times of stress, she will rent out a canoe and go fishing on Lake Gooseberry. She prefers bowfishing at home but that's not always appropriate for Gooseberry. Since meals are provided here at school, she uses a catch-and-release system for leisure fishing and a good ol' rod will have to do. NOTABLE CLUB HISTORY: 2012-2013 School Year
- Participated in LARP, but she couldn't stand Ricardo and Cristiane hogging the limelight with their stupid storylines so she flaked at the end of the semester and never went back after winter break.
- Was a member of Event Committee for up until the Halloween dance, but she hated being the lowest on the totem pole and ghosted (heh) on them in the middle of setup when she got tired of having orders barked at her.
- Cocky about her Southern Roots™ and thirsting after a Senior boy from the country, she decided horseback riding was The Thing To Do despite never having ridden a flying horse before. She went to the first Equestrian Club meeting, took one look around, and didn't see her crush she was stalking and so she left.
- After quitting LARP, Charlie joined Gaming Club and joined a D&D campaign run by an inexperienced DM. It was combat-heavy instead of story-driven and she got bored and impatient while waiting for everyone to make their combat moves, and then having to listen to the DM explain how combat rolls works for the hundredth time because nobody was paying attention. On her turn, she doused herself in lantern oil from her trusty Adventurer's Kit and self-immolated so that she had an easy way out of the campaign.
SCHOOL
YEAR: Junior
HOUSE: Coppertale
SORTING: It was a toss-up between Azurcrest and Coppertale (she flat-out ignored the other two boring houses), but she enjoyed letting them fight over her for a bit before choosing Coppertale because it matched her hair color. It was a good fit for her-- she displayed every single one of their traits-- but it also encouraged her to be more of an awful child because she's constantly surrounded by other awful children who enable each other.
WAND: 9 inches, Chestnut, Rougarou hair.
FAMILIAR: Jarvey-Ferret mix named Firewater. He's playful and affectionate, but totally rude. Charlie adores him and teaches him new and creative insults.
CLASSES:
Core: Charms, Herbology, Potions, Transfiguration.
Electives: DADA, Wizard Lit.
Electives: DADA, Wizard Lit.
ADVANCED STUDY: Animagus Studies; American Alligator.
Charlotte sees a successful Animagus transformation as a mark of a highly skilled and successful witch or wizard. She believes it to be the most difficult and prestigious class, even more than the ancient art of Occlumency, and therefore she HAS to take it. The rarity of the Animagus status among wizards is also highly appealing to her. She's been working hard in Transfiguration in hopes of being admitted into the class.
SENIOR PROJECT:
Since Freshman year, Charlie has been working on trying to create a sentient plant of moderate intelligence that could be marketed as a pet. Last year, she successfully created a hybrid of a screechsnap and a walking plant but it's dumb and clumsy and overly sensitive. It's either overjoyed and chirping or moping and whining; there seems to be no in-between. (Working name: Morales Inconcinnus)
Her mom and grandmothers have given her a lot of guidance with this project and she's come closer to finishing her project by finally successfully cross-breeding it with a Mandrake over the summer. The prototype is called GEN 1, nicknamed Geni. Coming into Junior year, Geni is just a little sapling and unendearingly ugly but Charlotte is excited to watch its growth progress.
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: Like many kids at this school, Charlie is a tryhard. In academics, it's not necessary for her to be the best in all her classes, but there are a few classes she is overly-competitive in: Herbology, to prove herself as a Meer, DADA, after last year's fiasco with dark creatures, and Animagus Studies because she believes her success in transforming into a creature will prove her talent as a witch.
Her favorite class is Animagus Studies, but her best class is Herbology; she has an unfair advantage, though, and she writes to her family for help when she's stuck on a particularly tricky part of her project. Anything to get ahead.
Her least favorite class last year was Magizoology and she dropped it this year after getting Squonk juice in her mouth after hurting the beast's feelings. She's pretty pleased with her schedule this year and so far, there are no classes she dislikes that she hasn't already dropped but time can certainly change her opinion. All she knows is if she's given another miserable creature to care for, she'll scream.
EXTRACURRICULARS: Coppertale Quidditch - Beater, Archery, Boating, Choir, Drama, Duelling & Fencing, Gardening, Outdoor Exploration, Barre.
NEW: Crafting club & and new Y2 clubs. (Showed up for the first meeting to put her name on the roster, but won't regularly attend unless there's something to gained from it.)
She's a love 'em and leave 'em type and has been in every club at some point.
OOC
NAME: Ali
EMAIL:
CDJ: ~aeris @ IJ
OTHER PREFERRED CONTACT: Dropbox
TIME ZONE: EST
Ch-ch-changes
- Appearance (retconned to make her pear-shaped)
- Senior project (added her sophomore + summer progress)
- Classes (Dropped Magizoology, added Animagus studies)
- Extracurriculars (Added crafting club)
+ new sections of the app filled out